[AccessD] [dba-VB] VB.Net - using an outside DLL

JWColby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed May 2 14:47:49 CDT 2007


>- use global version of this components - then you have to register your
classlib .NET component in GAC (Global Assembly Cache) - see sn.exe
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k5b5tt23(vs.71).aspx) and
gacutil.exe (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex0ss12c(vs.71).aspx)
for more details... 

And there is a batch file in the zip of the component that supposedly
registers this using a gacutil.  Unfortunately I can not get it to to
perform as it is apparently supposed to.  The batch file immediately does a
CD to bin and then tries to execute gacutil but that begs the question of
where I am supposed to place this stuff initially in order for that to work
correctly.  There is no readme.txt that tells me that.


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:21 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] [dba-VB] VB.Net - using an outside DLL

John,

If you use your component classlib from within VS (VB.NET, C#, C++/CLI)
applications then you can:

- use local copy of this components with every installation of your FE app,
utility/service app etc.;

- use global version of this components - then you have to register your
classlib .NET component in GAC (Global Assembly Cache) - see sn.exe
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k5b5tt23(vs.71).aspx) and
gacutil.exe (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex0ss12c(vs.71).aspx)
for more details... 

If you use your COM-exposed .NET component classlib from within COM
application (MS Access, VB6 etc.) then you have to use RegAsm.exe to extract
COM typelib from it and to register it - see MSDN for more details -
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tzat5yw6(vs.71).aspx 


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Shamil
 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:34 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] [dba-VB] VB.Net - using an outside DLL

I copied this ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.DLL to my windows\system32 directory
and tried to register it but it gave an error "no load point" or something
similar.  As a result the reference wizard inside of VSS cannot find it in
the list (which probably comes from the registry).  

Aint computin fun?

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Eric Barro
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:30 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com; 'Access Developers discussion and problem
solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] [dba-VB] VB.Net - using an outside DLL

In VS.NET you create a reference to the DLL and when you compile your
project it puts it in the BIN folder. When you create a setup you specify
all the files it needs and the setup program knows where to copy it on the
target machine. 

I believe I've covered this in a previous email about where .NET stored the
binaries.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:21 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving';
dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-VB] VB.Net - using an outside DLL

I am looking at using the ICSharpCode.Sharplib.DLL for its unzip stuff.
This is actually something that is going to go on the server I am building
the project on but might also go on another machine.  My question in general
is where do you place a component like this in the .Net universe?  Do you
place it in Windows\System32 like you would all other DLLs?  Do you place it
in the framework directory?  Do you place it in the project specifically
using it?  
 
Regardless of where you place it, how is it "gathered up, and then
reinstalled" on another machine as a project is migrated to another machine?
 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
 
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